Bluetooth is a standard for the shortrange wireless interconnection of cellular phones, computers, and other electronic devices. This automatically loads pulseaudio bluetooth module after audio device is connected and plays all audio through the bluetooth headset. The following method works with a lenovo t61p laptop and soundbot sb220 wireless bluetooth headset. In linux, the canonical implementation of the bluetooth protocol stack is bluez. How to pair and use bluetooth devices on linux addictivetips. These days we have so many bluetooth devices all around us. If you experience problems with your video driver e. The mate desktop environment arch linux forum discussion. The image can be burned to a cd, mounted as an iso file, or be directly written to a usb stick using a utility like dd. If youre running arch youll want to install bluez and bluezutils.
The generic bluetooth driver is the btusb kernel module. For bluetooth device support, install the blueman package. Getting bluetooth to work in arch linux super user. How to connect to a bluetooth device on arch linux linux hint. I dont have any major issues and for me is daily driver, but again i have not tried. Cinnamon is the 3d accelerated version, which should normally be used. In this video i am going through the tasks i normally perform after installing arch linux. Alsa and pulseaudio backends are supported by the mate media package. For users of the much loved linux distro, arch linux. This page describes debian bluetooth information for end users. This page is powered by a knowledgeable community that helps you make an informed decision. Manjaro, anarchy linux, and artix linux are probably your best bets out of the 32 options considered. Bluetooth for bluetooth device support, install the blueman.
This forum is for topics specific to the raspberry pi and arch linux arm. Users who want to use pulseaudio with a bluetooth headset, in addition to installing pulseaudio bluetooth, may want to activate the pulseaudio plugin of blueman. Alternatively install bluezutilscompataur to additionally have the deprecated bluez tools. If you haveneed bluetooth support for any electronic device not only a headset you need to install some packages and even activate a. Be sure to enable the bluetooth daemon and start blueman with bluemanapplet. The required software stack is extensive and failure to include all components can produce errors which are difficult to understand. Arch repo name version description last updated flag date. If this happens to you, read the manual for your device and look into what drivers it requires to run on linux. If you prefer to start cinnamon manually from the console, add the following line to. Alsa, bluez5, and pulseaudio work together to allow a wireless bluetooth headset to play audio.
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